Peter Garrett Quotes

Well I'm not convinced that expanding uranium mining is in the best interests of the country and the best interests of its environment.

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• I see my fans as music lovers. I really love that. There's no age group or demographic. It's people of all ages and backgrounds. Country people and non-country people. I wanted to make music across the board.

  

  Kacey Musgraves
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  • Music
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• A fighter lives in his training camp, and I'm not always paying attention to what is happening on the outside. But I do know the Mexican people and the Mexican-American people in this country are very hard-working people. That's my only comment about Donald Trump.

  

  Canelo Alvarez
  • People
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• I guess my favorite artists are The White Stripes or Tom Waits. The more theatrical the music is, the more I get into it. I also like the quieter folk music, that kind of old-school rockabilly or country. I'm not really picky when it comes to music, as long as it's honest.

  

  Landon Liboiron
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• When I go to a country, I go to flea markets, antique stores. I am always looking for something.

  

  Ursula Andress
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• If we're going to see sustainable results from all the other investments we're making in education, we need to build leadership capacity in each and every country.

  

  Wendy Kopp
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• The beauty of our country is that when it was founded that they took some time to lay out civil liberties in the first 10 Amendments - the Bill of Rights. I'm a firm believer in those civil liberties and the ability to have your own opinion.

  

  Aaron Rodgers
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• I'm the first Icelandic director who started working on U.S. movies. There are others behind me now, but it's like when Bjork opened the door for Icelandic musicians to work abroad. We're such a closed-off country, but Bjork broke the spell. And I'm glad it was a woman who did it. She showed us we could break this barrier.

  

  Baltasar Kormakur
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• France has the least social mobility of any developed country. The social elevator no longer works. It's broken.

  

  Xavier Niel
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• If a Labour movement, on a bourgeois basis, has hitherto existed in the country where the new movement is awakening it will certainly not disappear all at once.

  

  Karl Radek
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• Football's about the young players, bringing youth team players through to the first team and hopefully getting the best out of them so they can go on to play for their country.

  

  Wayne Rooney
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• The only politics in this country that's relevant to black people today is the politics of revolution... none other.

  

  H. Rap Brown
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• As threats emerge - from ISIS to Russia to the Iranian nuclear program - we need a president with the resolve to defend our country and not back down.

  

  Sam Graves
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• Peru is a country where more than half the people would emigrate if given the chance. That's half the population that is willing to abandon everything they know for the uncertainty of a life in a foreign land, in another language.

  

  Daniel Alarcon
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• Any first lady can do whatever they want to do. In this country, people expect them to work on whatever they want or to have a career of their own.

  

  Laura Bush
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• It is self-evident that St. Louis affected me more deeply than any other environment has ever done. I feel that there is something in having passed one's childhood beside the big river, which is incommunicable to those people who have not. I consider myself fortunate to have been born here, rather than in Boston, or New York, or London.

  

  T. S. Eliot
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  • Done
  • Environment

• And one of the rules of good civil society I believe is that you’re respectful of the people who disagree with you. And that's part of what makes civil society work. If you can have civil disagreements, and you can listen to each other and not just shout, that's what creates an environment that leads to progress over the long term.

  

  Barack Obama
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• The main contribution one can make as a student to one's country in peace or wartime is to study hard and effectively.

  

  Margaret Thatcher
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  • Peace
  • Study

• Thanks to Hillary Clinton, Iran is now the dominant Islamic power in the Middle East, and on the road to nuclear weapons. Hillary Clinton's support for violent regime change in Syria has thrown the country into one of the bloodiest civil wars anyone has ever seen - while giving ISIS a launching pad for terrorism against the West.

  

  Donald Trump
  • Country
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• If you want me in the Hall of Fame put me in because of some contributions that I have made to country music.

  

  Buck Owens
  • Music
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• As to war, I am and always was a great enemy, at the same time a warrior the greater part of my life and were I young again, should still be a warrior while ever this country should be invaded and I lived.

  

  Daniel Morgan
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• At the time we did 'Night,' I was a director of television commercials. Some of them cost a lot more than our whole movie. They were very slick, sophisticated... we wanted the opposite look for 'Night.' We wanted it to look like a newsreel.

  

  George A. Romero
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• Finally if I had a pot that needed decoration, I would hand it to Alix MacKenzie and I would say, "Can you do something with this?" And she'd look at it for a while and then proceed with a brush to embellish the form and enhance the form, and it was wonderful. She could bring the pot to life, whereas if I did it, it was a disaster.

  

  Warren MacKenzie
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  • Disaster
  • Pot

• Well I'm not convinced that expanding uranium mining is in the best interests of the country and the best interests of its environment.

  

  Peter Garrett Midnight Oil
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